At least two prominent Black Hollywood players said they would not be attending the 88th Academy Awards show because the nominees, which were announced last week, are predominantly white.

Actress Jada Pinkett Smith and director Spike Lee made the announcements via social media channels. Lee posted on Instagram on Monday, Martin Luther King Jr. day, while Pinkett Smith released a video over the weekend. Both lambasted the lack of diversity in this year's nominee pool: For a second year in a row, all 20 actors in the best acting category are white.

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"#OscarsSoWhite...Again," a post on Spike Lee's Instagram account accompanying a photo of a young Dr. King read.

"How is is possible for the 2nd consecutive year all 20 contenders under the actor category are white?" the post read. "And let's not even get into the other branches. 40 white actors in 2 years and no flava at all. We can't act?! WTF!! It's no coincidence I'm writing this we celebrate the 30th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's birthday."

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Lee's post noted that the issue at stake was not about the Academy Awards themselves, but rather with Black representation in "gate keeper" executive positions in Hollywood and TV networks.

"This is what's important," Lee's post continued. "The gate keepers. Those with "the green light" vote... The truth is we ain't in those rooms and until minorities are, the Oscar nominees will remain Lilly white."

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Pinkett Smith took to Facebook with a video that's been viewed over 4 million times at the time of writing, explaining that she would not attend the ceremony as a protest. Her husband Will Smith was considered a contender for his role in "Concussion" but was not nominated.

The actress also suggested that the Black Hollywood community might do well to focus its efforts on creating its own art — not begging for acknowledgement in the "so-called mainstream."

"Maybe its time we pull back our resources and we put them back into our communities, into our programs, and we make programs for ourselves that acknowledge us in ways that we see fit, that are just as good as the so-called mainstream," Pinkett Smith says in the video.

"We are a dignified people and we are powerful — let's not forget it," Pinkett Smith continues. "So let's let the Academy do them with all grace and love, and let's do us differently."

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Following the release of the 2016 Oscar nominees, people took to social media using the hashtag #OscarsSoWhite to call out the lack of diversity in the pool.